2014Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.png2014-05-27UTC15:18:28+00:002014-05-26Malin Hartelius and Palle Knudsen electrify an otherwise competent Don Giovanni in Copenhagen.An occasionally brilliant Don Giovanni at the Royal Danish Operaen_GBtruehttps://bachtrack.com/review-don-giovanni--hartelius-copenhagen-may-2014Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.pngKevin W Nghttps://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/15781https://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/15781https://bachtrack.com/files/40587-kevin-w-ng.jpgKevin is currently a student at the University of British Columbia. He is a violinist and violist, and regularly performs as a soloist, orchestral player, and chamber musician. Particular interests include French violin sonatas, 20th century opera, and Richard Strauss.https://bachtrack.com/files/5429-don_giovanni_danish_miklos_szabo.jpg510340Don Giovanni (Royal Danish Opera)Miklos Szabo2014-May-25, The Opera House: Main Stage: Don Giovannihttps://bachtrack.com/opera-listing/det-kongelige-teater-main-stage/don-giovanni/25-may-2014/15-002014-05-252014-05-25The Opera House: Main StageCopenhagenHovedstadenDenmark1438Ekvipagemestervej 1055.6817512.6020210000000363

Thursday’s concert in the Oslo Concert House marked the end of an era. It was, along with the concert the following evening, the final concert of Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the orchestra’s principal conductor for the last seven years. Final, as in his final concert as principal conductor: the orchestra isn’t letting go of him that easily.

2013Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.png2013-11-07UTC16:45:09+00:002013-05-28Aksel Tollåli reviews the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Jukka-Pekka Saraste playing Mahler's Second SymphonySaraste's final triumph: Mahler 2 with the Oslo Philharmonicen_GBtruehttps://bachtrack.com/review-oslo-philharmonic-jukka-pekka-saraste-mahler-2Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.pngAksel Tollålihttps://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/1284https://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/1284https://bachtrack.com/files/148-aksel.jpgAksel is currently studying towards a degree in musicology at the University of Oslo. At the moment he is an exchange student at Goldsmiths College in London. He is also a choral singer and a trombonist. His musical interests include 20th-cenury French music, Baroque opera and the music of Richard Strauss.https://bachtrack.com/files/2680-saraste_stina_gullander.jpg380380Jukka-Pekka Saraste Stina Gullander2013-May-23, Oslo Concert Hall (Konserthus): Saraste's farewell as chief conductorhttps://bachtrack.com/concert-listing/oslo-concert-hall-konserthus/sarastes-farewell-as-chief-conductor/23-may-2013/19-302013-05-232013-05-23Oslo Concert Hall (Konserthus)OsloOsloNorway0250Munkedamsveien 1459.913236110.729624999999942http://www.oslofilharmonien.no/internet/oslofil.nsf/pages/sarastes-farewell-as-chief-conductor?utm_medium=display&utm_source=bachtrack.comhttps://bachtrack.com/files/11898-lys1.jpg5

‘Intimate symphonic playing’: an oxymoron perhaps, but in the fantastic acoustic of Symphony Hall and with the polished playing of the CBSO, somehow these symphonies, even with the tooting trumpets, blaring bassoons and sonorous strings (not to mention the tonking timpani), had the feel of chamber music.

2011Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.png2015-03-30UTC14:17:01+00:002011-12-05Arthur Keegan-Bole reviews the CBSO playing Nielsen's Third Symphony, Sibelius' Fourth, and orchestral songs by Grieg.1911: A very good year for the symphonyen_GBtruehttps://bachtrack.com/review-cbso-spano-sibelius-fourth-symphony-nielsen-third-symphonyBachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.pngArthur Keegan-Bolehttps://bachtrack.com/files/879-robert_spano__by_andrew_eccles.jpg400400Robert Spano, Andrew Eccles2011-Dec-01, Birmingham Symphony Hall: The Year 1911: Sibelius and Nielsenhttps://bachtrack.com/listing-cbso-spano-sibelius-fourth-symphony-nielsen-third-symphony2011-12-012011-12-01Birmingham Symphony HallBirminghamWest MidlandsUnited KingdomB1Broad Street52.479179918226-1.90926074981693

The evening’s music commenced with Ligeti’s Night; Morning, one of the composer’s last works before his emigration to the West. Although only a very short piece, it exhibits some of the compositional approaches that are now synonymous with Ligeti’s style.